Max Temp RCS can take

syed.ali · Unread post by **syed.ali** » Mon May 27, 2013 6:33 pm

I have setup one nano thank, which is about 15 liters of water.
The tank is kept outside, it receives about 2-3 hrs of direct sunlight.

This tank has 1 AC fan running on it non stop.

The only fauna in this tank is RCS.

Initially when the temperature was hover in 40-42 range, the tank temperature was hitting max of 28 C, that too in the peak after noon hrs, but ever since the temperature has being hitting 43+, the tank temperature has been hitting 32 and staying in 28-32 for quite some time.

I took out most of the good quality RCS from the tank but left few other as i wanted to see that the temperature they can bear and also i had lot of shrimplets which obviously cant take out.

To my surprise, i am not seeing any skeletons of the RCS in the tank, they are active as ever.

rather i have noticed new shrimplets in it.

what do others members have to say on this.

Unread post by **SCORPIO** » Mon May 27, 2013 7:54 pm

In an outside tank, RCS are surviving in 34 degree Celsius.

syed.ali · Unread post by **syed.ali** » Tue May 28, 2013 12:49 pm

SCORPIO wrote:In an outside tank, RCS are surviving in 34 degree Celsius.

Yes

I have seen going till 32 and RCS are there, i will post the pics of the tank with the temperature rating.

Dheeraj_Dj · Unread post by **Dheeraj_Dj** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:08 pm

My problem seems to be with min temperature & more worried due to Bangalore winter.. so whats the min RCS & CRS can take?? I have both in my outdoor tank.

Cheers,
Dj

Unread post by **SCORPIO** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:45 pm

Dheeraj, I have also kept RCS in 17-18 degree Celsius.

Abhishek · Unread post by **Abhishek** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:53 am

Dheeraj_Dj wrote:My problem seems to be with min temperature & more worried due to Bangalore winter.. so whats the min RCS & CRS can take?? I have both in my outdoor tank.

Cheers,
Dj

RCS no issues, CRS 18-20 is good but try to keep the water temp around 25 during summer..

Unread post by **Romi** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:28 am

Amazing insights about RCS. I had some really good ones, but had fish with them due to space crunch. had I know they can survive in the summer like Syed Ali says, in a nano tank, I would have used my nano to house them

What wonderful creatures they are, good looking, hardy, prolific. We should appreciate them more. They deserve their popularity.

syed.ali · Unread post by **syed.ali** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:46 pm

Even right now that tank is out side, the temp are already hitting 15, no drop in RCS, they are doin great

djmankotia · Unread post by **djmankotia** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:42 am

Sharing my experience here: In the past, I have kept RCS in a tray outside with Java Moss thrown in - no filteration, no aeration, and yes, no feeding. The tray used to get overflow water from the water tank through a pipe (gardening hose). The RCS readily survived the heat of Delhi, to my surprise, even multiplied. I guess water evaporating from an open surface really brings down the temperature a lot, especially with the wind outside. I was a bit skeptical they would jump out or get thrown out of the tray due to the flow of water through pipe. But they seem to adjust and hide in the corners to evade the flow whenever tank used to overflow, which I thought was simply amazing

. The colour of shrimps weren't really pronounced in the tray outside but I did notice that when few of these were put back in the my main tank with plants, substrate and lighting, the shrimps picked up colour after a few hours.

So yes, RCS are pretty hardy creatures and as Romi-ji pointed out, they definitely need more appreciation

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